Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1891 — A Brave Engineer. [ARTICLE]

A Brave Engineer.

The Cincinnati Enquirer tells the the story of a remarkable act of bravery on the part of Engineer Martin Winters, of the Panhandle road. Sixty miles east of Columbus, 0., September 11 the driving rod on an engine pulling an excursion train broke as the train was running at a speed of forty miles an hour. In its revolutions it broke one of the driving wheels, badly dismantled the engine and demolished the cab. Yet the engine did not leave the trackThe accident had destroyed the ap.

pliance foT setting the air-brake, a&d with the engine wobbling to and fro as it sped along the track the engineer, with monkey wrench in hand, climbedMown under the first car at the peril of his life and set the airbrakes, which brought the train to a stop. The passengers came out of cars to ascertain what was the matter, and when they saw what a narrow escape they "had had, the accidenthaving occurred on a high embankment, they were so thankful that a handsome sum of money was raised for the heroic engineer;

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